English example sentences with "astonishingly"

The townspeople were astonishingly naive about what the smugglers were.

She was astonishingly beautiful.

It's astonishingly beautiful.

Children grow up astonishingly quickly.

The human hand is astonishingly versatile.

He moved astonishingly fast.

His movements were astonishingly rapid.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an astonishingly strong and powerful American hero.

Not even a hundred people went to the concert. That is astonishingly few.

Clothes are astonishingly cheap here.

When Mark Twain wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," he regularly used the n-word about "Jim," whom he otherwise described in the kindest terms. Twain certainly had character flaws, but he was personally aware of many of them, and I don't think he should be described as a racist; by the standards of his time, he would be seen as astonishingly broad-minded and liberal. Nevertheless, knowing how the n-word has been used within a society afflicted by systemic racism, a person with any ordinary feelings of respect for fellow-creatures would refrain from using it today.

The human hand is astonishingly flexible.